Brinkley & Ivins Together

  • Tape cuts in
  • Pictures are limited to the surface of events.
  • Television is very young in the history of journalism.
  • The collapse of the public education system.
  • David Brinkley responds to question about public schools.
  • Molly: Subgenres of journalism. Surveys showing we don't know a thing.
  • Sam Houston State University
  • "Ignorance can be cured."
  • Journalists run up against walls in education.
  • National Endowment for the Arts
  • Jesse Helms & the National Endowment
  • The future of the Democratic Party.
  • Democratic moving to the right.
  • Ross Perot
  • Moving to the end of party structures entirely.
  • "American energy industry is dead."
  • "Supply side voodoo"
  • People from the government who become syndicated columnists and commenters without journalism training is troubling.
  • Journalism and the Economy
  • Term limitations and other ideas won't work without campaign finance reform.
  • Tape cuts out.